/ A Featured Work of IATC (HK) Critics Awards 2020 /
In 2021, the pandemic certainly affected our society, our culture, especially our culture of communications, and invoked our deep reflection on art and the development of our society. That presented us opportunities to carry out dialectic discourses on our experimentation and its creative process, as well as allowing us to examine the very nature of art, which includes the evaluation of the virtuality and the realness in the context of the present technological advancement. The pandemic reminds us the disconnection between our developed society and its respective environmental ecology, so much so that the health and education systems are not on par with our needs in reality. The interactions between the system and technology becomes an important issue.
To be staged at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in July this year, 2 or 3 Things About Interrupted Dream which is developed from the excerpt In Praise of the Portrait of the kunqu (opera) Peony Pavilion created in Ming dynasty, aims at getting inspired by looking at a “portrait” out of the frame/context. What is different is that, today, we are trying to examine the history by experimenting the migration of a painted portrait into the forms of “photo”, “film” and “reality TV”. That is to explore and evaluate how theatre being a framework and the vehicle of communications, so as to reflect on how the notion of theatre being challenged by the ever-available public space/media with the aid of current technology. Seemingly, the portrait used in the Peony Pavilion metaphors idol worship, while our simile is to discuss the virtuality and the realness of the media in a theatre play.
Danny Yung
Cedric Chan
Martin ChoySylvie CoxJH Ellen KongDan Tse
Steve Hui (aka Nerve)
Benny Woo
Mak Kwok Fai
Chan Wing Kit
Danny Yung Experimental Theatre 2 or 3 Things about the Interrupted Dream was invited in the InlanDimensions International Arts Festival 2021, greeting the audience in both wide-shot version and edited version. The Video-on-Demand service is available from September 24th to October 19th. For details, please refer to the festival’s website.
The Return of Soul at the Peony Pavilion, written by dramatist Tang Xianzu in 1598, included Scene 10 – Interrupted Dream. The scene provided us significant rooms for imagination and the vicissitudes of life presented in and outside the theatre. Among the variety of symbols and narratives, we went with the flow to look for individual and collective imaginative space.
Peony Pavilion was banned several times 450 years back. Every time it was restaged, it turned into even more indulged and plaintively showy. Now, all of us, please look at this theatre, look at its confines and taboos, and attend to the way we see and be seen in Interrupted Dream.
Director Danny Yung
Production Manager: Chow Chun Yin
Deputy Stage Manager: Zeta Chan
Video Operator: Johnny Sze
Assistant Stage Manager: Chan On Ki, Megan Hung
Wardrobe: Bonnie Chan
Stage Crew: Kenneth Chan, Chim Man Lung
Rehearsal Master: Megan Hung
Creative Assistant: Dan Tse, Wu Zonglun
Graphic Design: Lee Ken Tsai
Graphic Design Assistant: Coco Cheung
Promotion Video Production: Ricky Cheng
Video Documentation: Dino+Hayman@Singular
Photography: Cheung Chi Wai, Vic Shing
Stage Intern: Crystal Pang, Issac Chan
Video Documentation Intern: Wong Yu Tak, Yan Tsz Long
In Search of New China by John Wong (2019)
(Zuni’s Experimental Theatre Restructuring Images Series
Original Director/ Concept: Danny Yung)
Suite in A Minor, RCT 1: No. 1 Prélude
Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sheep on the Slope in Interrupted Dream
Vocal: Shen Yili (Shanghai)
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major
Composed by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Dream
Vocal: Carrie Koo
Music: Joseph Koo
Lyrics: Doe Ching
Pak Supono (Yogyakarta)
International Exchange Director: Wong Yuewai
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Company Manager (Programme): Doris Kan
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Programme Manager: Ho Yin-Hei
Assistant Programme Manager: Ricky Cheng
Programme and Art Administration Trainee: Stephy Yeung
Didik Nini Thowok
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Running time approximately 80 minutes with no intermission
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